again - I was taught by liberal teachers in a liberal college and then conservative teachers in a conservative masters program that DEBT is horrible at FED level --- as the issuing of bonds to carry the debt CROWDS out private borrowers (by increasing supply of debt and thus interest rate needed to attract buyers) . This crowding out will throttle growth of the private sector and kill GDP and cause recessions
I agreed. But - as posted prior - AT LEAST SO FAR for 30 years or more of D and R and various situations ---- the growing National Debt has not crowded out private borrowing - has not stopped massive GDP growth over that period - and is not the cause of any recession. This is not opinion but observation.
Now can that continue for ever ? Now can that continue now that interest rates are getting back to normal ranges (increasing cost of Fed Debt and eating up more of the tax dollar collected) ? I do not know - I do not know I do know that higher and growing (SEE DJT period for most recent 25% growth (or was it 33%) in four years) HAS NOT come with all the predicted negatives --- it simply has not
Will that continue ? is there a real limit ? (100% or 200% of GDP?) -- I do not know . But the arguments of those who argue that the GOV accumulating debt - with a printing press and no end of life (v a family or business) start to ring true ---- so far.
So my bottom line --- given the last 30 or whatever years (time flies) of growing debt and no real negative impact --- NOT WORTH killing key programs that keep people alive or healthy in the name of NEEDED debt reduction.